This has been a really exciting week in the garden and my early sowings have been paying off.

We've harvsted:

Strawberries - Marshmello
Cucumbers - Rocky (mini fruits)
Lettuce - Salad Bowl
Carrots - Ideal
Potatoes - Foremost
Beetroot - boltardy
Cauliflower - Graffiti
Mixed oriental leaves - mizuna, mustard, etc

I am about three weeks ahead of last year, according to my diary, except with the beetroot which seemed to languish rather during April. I put this down to earlier sowing times in general, but I do think they have been slowed down due to a very cool March this year.

There is a hint of colour coming in some tomatoes - Bloody Butcher and Golden Sunrise - so I should be about a month ahead if all goes to plan.

The key now is to keep sowing the successional crops so it's not all over by the end of July!

I've managed multiple sowings of lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, calabrese, beetroot, carrots and potatoes and even the tomatoes and cucumbers have some later siblings.

Whether all of these will come to fruition is another question!